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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS James Armstrong is Associate Professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at SUNY Plattsburgh. He is coeditor of Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture. Efraim Ben-Zadok is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. He was a faculty member at the State University of New York and Tel Aviv University. His fields of interest are public policy analysis, and urban politics and policy. His recent book is entitled Local Communities and the Israeli Polity (1993). Shmuel Bolozky is Professor of Hebrew in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts , Amherst. Formerly he taught in the Department of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. He holds a B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an M.A. from the University of London, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois. His research specialization is in Hebrew and general phonology and morphology. Giora Goldberg is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at BarIlan University. He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters about Israeli politics, society, elections, and parties. He is also the author of several books in Hebrew , including Political Parties in Israel: From Mass Parties to Electoral Parties (1992). Efraim Inbar is Associate Professor in Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the Director of its BESA Center for Strategic Studies. He has published extensively on Israeli 265 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS James Armstrong is Associate Professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at SUNY Plattsburgh. He is coeditor of Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture. Efraim Ben-Zadok is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. He was a faculty member at the State University of New York and Tel Aviv University. His fields of interest are public policy analysis, and urban politics and policy. His recent book is entitled Local Communities and the Israeli Polity (1993). Shmuel Bolozky is Professor of Hebrew in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts , Amherst. Formerly he taught in the Department of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. He holds a B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an M.A. from the University of London, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois. His research specialization is in Hebrew and general phonology and morphology. Giora Goldberg is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at BarIlan University. He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters about Israeli politics, society, elections, and parties. He is also the author of several books in Hebrew , including Political Parties in Israel: From Mass Parties to Electoral Parties (1992). Efraim Inbar is Associate Professor in Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the Director of its BESA Center for Strategic Studies. He has published extensively on Israeli 265 List of Contributors 266 national security problems and his latest book is War and Peace in Israeli Politics: Labor Party Positions on National Security. He is currently engaged in a study of the Israeli use of force. Yagil Levy is an Instructor in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He recently received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University, with the dissertation "The Role of the Military Sphere in the Construction cf the Social-Political Order in Israel: The Conduct of the Arab-Israeli Conflict as a Statist Control Strategy." He is the author of a number of forthcoming articles on military-society relations in Israel and elsewhere. Abraham Marthan is Professor at Gratz College, near Philadelphia , where he teaches Hebrew literature and the literature of the golden age in Spain. He holds a Ph.D. from Dropsie University, and is author of a volume of Hebrew poems Shavot Hasirot im Erev, and numerous essays and critical studies in the field of Hebrew literature. Yoav Peled is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Class and Ethnicity in the Pale: The Political Economy of Jewish Workers ' Nationalism in Late Imperial Russia (1989) and of several articles on Israeli society and politics. Ilan Peleg is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Government and Law at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Among his books are Begins Foreign Policy 1977-83: Israel's Turn to the Right (1987); The Emergence of a Bi-National State: The Second Republic in the Making (1989); and most recently , Patterns of Censorship Around the World (1993). He specializes in Israeli foreign policy, the...

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